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Vagus

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Noun

1. nervus vagus, pneumogastric, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve

a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vagus

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noun plural -gi (-dʒaɪ)
the tenth cranial nerve, which supplies the heart, lungs, and viscera

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Vagus

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nounWord forms: plural ˈvaˌgi (ˈveɪˌdʒaɪ ; vāˈjīˌ)
either of the tenth pair of cranial nerves, arising in the medulla oblongata and providing parasympathetic innervation to the larynx, lungs, heart, esophagus, and most of the abdominal organs
: also vagus nerve

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Vagus

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n. pl. va·gi (-gī, -jī)
The vagus nerve.

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